Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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